Discuss: Cell Phone Data Collection

This week's poll question is about recent reports about the amount of information collected by iOS and Android devices. Discuss here if you think the tech giants need all that information to provide their services, and, if you like, the poll results themselves.

Is there a thread for cable TV data collection? I presumeComcast keeps a record of every channel I switch to, andwhen, so they know which programs and advertisementsI turn off, and at exactly what point in the program or ad.

"...why not collect user data, if it means lowering your price, maby to a point where it's "free".

Sorry, but that doesn't wash. Tracking my every movement on a device doesn't qualify as "user-data", whether I'm using something free or not. Same goes for all my e-mails and bank-transactions. Call it paranoia if you wish, but having worked for a cell-phone refurbisher in the past gave me some frightful insights as to just how potentially intrusive this can be...

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